74% of consumers say easy electronic access to health data would improve their knowledge of their health and improve communication with their physicians, according to a recent survey. The October/November 2015 HealthMine survey of 502 U.S. consumers reveals 53% of consumers cannot access all of their health data from a computer. With higher deductibles and rising healthcare costs, Americans rolling into their 2016 health plans will assume more responsibility for both the cost and control of
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Mount Sinai to Develop App For Patients With Venous Thromboembolism
The Department of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has been awarded a $500k grant funded by Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning & Change (IGLC) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Independent Medical Education (IME). The grant focuses on accelerating the development and adoption of evidence-based approaches to improve the safety and effectiveness of patients with the diagnosis of venous thromboembolism (VTE) as they move from one care setting to another.
The $500k, 24
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ONC Releases 2016 Interoperability Standards Advisory
On Tuesday, the ONC released the 2016 Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA)—a catalog of existing and emerging standards and implementation specifications developed and used to meet specific interoperability needs.
The overall purpose of the 2016 Interoperability Standards Advisory is:
1) To provide the industry with a single, public list of the standards and implementation specifications that can best be used to fulfill specific clinical health information interoperability needs.
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5 Secure Messaging Trends to Watch for in 2016
TelmedIQ’s CEO Ben Moore shares his insights on what’s trending in secure messaging as the data exchange evolution in healthcare continues.
The popularity and proliferation of health information technology (HIT) has led to the following quandary: how do we keep all that vital, personal information safe, secure and HIPAA compliant? It’s a question that has stopped some providers in their technical tracks, propelling innovators to come up with viable, secure message solutions— like the kind
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drchrono Launches First Fully Featured iPhone EHR
drchrono, the mobile EHR on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and web for physicians and their patients, today announced the launch of its fully featured and clinical documentation iPhone EHR.
Before today, drchrono only allowed a physician to take all of their paper medical forms and put them onto iPad and web, to do rounds and document patient information. With full clinical documentation, a physician can now literally see patients with an iPhone and do his/her rounds.
Key features of the
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Sytrue, HighFive Partner to Optimize Medication Reconciliation for Providers
SyTrue, Inc., a healthcare data-refinement company, that specializes in natural language processing (NLP) solutions used to translate unstructured medical data into useable clinical information, announced today, a partnership with HighFive, who provides community wide medication management solutions.
Partnership Details
Leveraging SyTrue’s NLP OS™ and Semantic terminology server, HighFive has normalized medication data from free text as well as disparate systems into usable interoperable data
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TeleHealth Services, UbiCare To Engage Patients Throughout Care Continuum
TeleHealth Services and UbiCare are teaming up to provide a unique, proven patient education and engagement solution for hospitals, healthcare systems, clinics and ambulatory centers. Through their proprietary technologies, the companies are able to fully engage patients throughout the care continuum with timely, episode-specific messages sent directly to their personal devices. Patients will receive evidence-based reliable health information from their trusted care provider pushed to them no
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CMS Awards Startup Amino Access to Physician-Level Medicare Claims Data
Amino, a digital health startup connecting people to doctors, today announced that it has achieved Qualified Entity (QE) Status under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) data sharing program and will be the first for-profit company to receive a complete set of national, physician-level claims data from Medicare parts A, B, and D.
These CMS claims will be added to Amino’s expanding database – already more than 5 billion health care interactions representing 188 million
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OpenNotes Pulls In $10M to Support Access to Clinical Notes for 50M Patients
Cambia Health Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Peterson Center on Healthcare, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation are teaming up to jointly fund the three-year, $10M expansion of the OpenNotes movement. The funding will be used to accelerate access to clinical notes to 50 million patients nationwide.
For the next three years, the new $10M funding will support OpenNotes’ ability to assist providers with adoption, to reach a wide range of consumers, and to evaluate the impact
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Report: Hospitals Not Effectively Integrating Workflows Across Departments
The healthcare industry has traditionally lagged behind other industries in technology adoption, but regulatory guidelines have prompted a wave of change. This week, Ricoh announced new research it commissioned from IDC Health Insights, which highlights the current technology needs of hospitals and how technology upgrades can help hospitals achieve meaningful use and accountable care benefits. The study reveals 83% of hospitals reporting opportunities to integrate workflows across departments,
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